From 00bb525ad4544580488b3419990a62cde6ffca1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Craig A. Berry" Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:23:12 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] VMS update for perldelta.pod Message-Id: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13456 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index ff716a5..2905f23 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ statically built in. This may or may not be a problem with ancient TCP/IP stacks of VMS: we do not know since we weren't able to test Perl in such configurations. +=head2 IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha + +Perl now uses IEEE format (T_FLOAT) as the default internal floating +point format on OpenVMS Alpha, potentially breaking binary compatibility +with external libraries or existing data. G_FLOAT is still available as +a configuration option. The default on VAX (D_FLOAT) has not changed. + =head2 Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...} As suggested by the Unicode consortium, the Unicode character classes @@ -1874,6 +1881,20 @@ VMS chdir() now works better despite a CRT bug; now works with MULTIPLICITY (see INSTALL); now works with Perl's malloc. +The tainting of C<%ENV> elements via C or C was previously +unimplemented. It now works as documented. + +The C emulation has been improved. The worst bug (now fixed) +was that a pid of -1 would cause a wildcard search of all processes on +the system. The most significant enhancement is that we can now +usually get the completion status of a terminated process. + +POSIX-style signals are now emulated much better on VMS versions prior +to 7.0. + +The C function and backticks operator have improved +functionality and better error handling. + =item * Windows @@ -2300,20 +2321,9 @@ There are a few known test failures, see L. =head2 VMS -Rather a lot of tests are failing in VMS, but actually more tests -succeed in VMS than they used to; it's just that there are many, -many more tests than there used to be. - -Here are the known failures from some compiler/platform combinations. - -Compaq C V6.2-009 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3 +There is one known test failure with a default configuration: [.run]switches..........................FAILED on test 1 - [-.ext.posix.t]posix....................FAILED on test 10 - [-.ext.time.hires]hires.................FAILED on test 17 - [-.lib]db...............................FAILED on test 24 - [-.lib.net]hostent......................FAILED on test 5 - [-.lib.pod.t]basic......................FAILED on test 10 =head2 Win32 -- 2.7.4